Death in the Bunker
by Ian Kershaw
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In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all' Penguin biography of Hitler is widely regarded as the definitive work on the megalomaniac Nazi leader. Death in the Bunker offers a compelling account of the final hours of Germany's Third Reich: the oaths and show more betrayals of the Fuhrer's henchmen, and his ultimate suicide in an underground chamber alongside his new wife Eva Braun. show lessTags
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Ian Kershaw is professor of modern history at the University of Sheffield. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Canonical title
- Death in the Bunker
- Original publication date
- 2000: Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis
- People/Characters
- Adolf Hitler
- Important places
- Berlin, Germany
- Important events
- Death of Adolf Hitler
- First words
- The atmosphere in the bunker on 20 April 1945, Hitler's fifty-sixth birthday, was more funereal than celebratory.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)His 7.65mm Walther pistol lay by his foot.
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 943.086092 — History & geography History of Europe Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech, Poland, Hungary Historical periods of Germany Germany 1866- Third Reich 1933-1945 History, geographic treatment, biography Biographies, Diaries And Journals
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- English
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